A recent newsletter gave instructions for extracting photos from movie clips in iPhoto. When I tried it, I couldn’t stop at a single frame in iPhoto. It always opened Quicktime, from which I couldn’t extract a frame. The directions imply that there’s a way to show the video in iPhoto. How? I record children’s performances and must, of necessity, run the video continuously. It would be great to be able to extract stills of individual faces.
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Rich Howell
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Extracting stills from video in iPhoto
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Are you using the most up-to-date version of iPhoto? The one from iLife 11? That tip won't work with the old iPhoto 09 application as it doesn't play QuickTime video inside of iPhoto.
I've read your earlier trick as well. I'm running iPhoto 11, but when I try to extract a still frame from an .avi file imported from my camera using the method you outlined, I continue to get only the first image in the video. I've tried every combination of Save options, even to the extent of exporting the file, saving it as a .mov with Quicktime and re-importing it to iPhoto, always with the same result - the first frame of the video file. Any thoughts?
I'm getting only the first frame with version 9.1.5 of iPhoto too. Oh well.